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Microsoft Cares About Your Privacy BBC reporter reveals his mother considered killing them both when he went blind at the age of eight

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By Chris Hastings Verified
| MSN Malaysia Verified
Chris Hastings BBC reporter Gary O'Donoghue today reveals how his mother considered killing them both after he went blind at the age of eight. Speaking on Radio 4's Desert Island Discs, he tells a shocked Lauren Laverne how, far from holding any sense of bitterness towards his late mother Connie, he was touched that she had opened up to him. 'It made me understand how lonely it must have been for her and my father.' O'Donoghue, 58, is the BBC's chief North America correspondent.
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Zoe Ball fights back tears over grandmother sent to a mental hospital for being a serial fantasist

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By Chris Hastings Verified
| MSN Singapore Verified
Continue reading Chris Hastings Zoe Ball has long been riding high as one of Britain's biggest broadcasting stars and was, until recently, the BBC 's highest-paid female presenter. But the former Radio 2 breakfast host has learned that it was a very different story for her impoverished grandmother – a serial fantasist who had 'delusions of grandeur' and was sent to a mental hospital for her 'grandiose ideas'.
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Microsoft Cares About Your Privacy Government careers advisers offer job seekers a short course in tarot card reading

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By Chris Hastings Verified
| MSN Singapore Verified
It is ideal for anyone who can't see a future in the world of work. The Government's National Careers Service is offering job seekers the chance to train as tarot card readers. The service, which is run by the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP), is recommending a series of short online courses which include a certificate in tarot card reading.
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